Keep Me From Being Chicken Little
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The stadium was ~65-70% full. A lot more people showed up than what they were predicting.
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I know Will Rogers is. We're fucked. Here's our next qb
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Maybe I'll regret saying this later but I'm not that concerned about the D, at least yet. The D actually has a few returning starters and other guys who played a decent amount of snaps last year. I also wasn't in love with our D last year and we(?) generally relied upon the very talented and experienced offense to win (except when Penix and / or Odunze and / or McMillian were banged up).
I'm not concerned about Will Rodgers either but am concerned about the WRs and OL not being ready for the better teams in the conference.
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Cuogs do a lot of stupid shit, but we? don't troll.
After a loss, this place, like most places, tends to panic like an 8th grade girl who has just figured out she was the only one of her friends who wasn't invited to the sleepover. Then the hyperbole sets in.
The coaching staff called a shitty game. Fixable. O line is new. Can continue to gel and at the very least get their run blocking reads down, and if they do, and I believe they will, then Coleman can fucking cook. Also, don't discount adjustments. Oregon's O line looked like ass against the Idahoes, switched out one guy, and road graded Beav. Get Coleman going, and Rodgers will carve. He's no Penix, but the kid can throw.
Defense …, well, losing Bruener hurt. Always hurts to lose a guy with in-bred BHL tuffness. But the only real scary offenses on my list I have chalked up to losses are SC and … who else? I need to see Gabriel play well a bit more than Beave before I crown his ass and that offense.
Be concerned. It's what makes the season interesting. Just don't panic and start mailing in 5-win seasons. Jimminny Christmas. You have to assume he beats N'Western, Rutgers and UCLA. There's your 5. Are you and the other hand wringers truly convinced Washington! can't beat at the very least one of Michigan, Iowa, Indiana, PSU, SC and Oregon? They? are beating two of those IMO, and I would not be at all surprised to see them steal one of the PSU, SC and Oregon games.
Let Coleman cook and set up the pass and watch what happens.
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I have all the screenshots I need
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this kid has no eligibility left after this season
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I thought you knew, Oregon is back baby!
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I actually believe Deboer could be that unicorn cfb coach, but if you could somehow replay the 2023 season 100 times, we wouldn't get through the first 14 teams without a loss one other time. That run and how we won so many of them is a once every 75 year team if even then.
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I think it was DeBoer plus a bunch of very talented experienced players. They had the right call on in every high leverage situation for the entire season and the players executed. Never seen anything like it. Retarded Team of Destiny indeed.
Then the last minute of the Sugar bowl showed up, got DJ hurt and nearly blew that game (thank you Sark), and carried it over for the entire next week.
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Don't overthink this Woolley it is a troll.
I didn't think at end of game we were so athletically better than WSU that it was a absolute shock we lost. The penalties did us in for sure which I believe Fisch gets corrected. I just look from Michigan on, and see level of talent especially along ol/dl as being so hard to overcome minus UCLA and Indiana
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The only thing I’m concerned about at this point is the coaching.
Unfortunately, that’s kind of a big deal.
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Eh, the next time UW is in one of these game situations they'll run the same play but leak a TE out and he'll be wide open for the winning score and Jedd will be a genius again.
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Would have been so poetic if Fisch called the same play Deboer did on the 4th and 1 last year, and UW scored to win 27-24.
THAT was the script, and I blame Fisch for thinking he’s too fucking cool to read it.
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Fuck Vanilla:
But regarding the whole couldn't go 14-0 thing I think this is a bit defeatist. It's wasn't the most unlucky injury year, but they also had the McMillan thing, lost their #2 RB, starting guard and center before the season started and it's very likely Penix got injured against Oregon the first time and we know Odunze got hurt but played through it. It could have always been worse but easily could have been better.
Every game until Michigan they had more NFL talent, particularly top level (and were at worst even with Michigan there too) and a much better QB other than arguably Oregon.
It was actually weirder they made it so hard and the hardest games possibly being ASU and the Cugo.
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Yeah I definitely didn't get the feeling that it was like UW clearly outclassed them but just didn't play well coach well etc. even on the level of like 2012. It's more mind boggling to me how WSU actually deserved to win more last year against that team and coaching staff.
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They were also a historically experienced team because of the covid year.
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He might check out of that after calling a timeout and run wildcat with Ngata
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Michigan was about the only more experienced team of all time. It was also a unique thing where because UW fucked up the UCLA and ASU games and the unlucky championship game format they accomplished less than they probably should have in 2022 so a lot of guys came back who didn't necessarily need to.
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Yep.
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Everyone had that potential advantage, it's not UW's fault that a bunch of these schools prefer to cycle guys out for the next soft TBS 7 on 7 prodigy.
UCLA got our best super senior.
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Nothing has changed with me, besides being wrong about last weekend..lol. 8-10 wins. All the mistakes I witnessed are fixable and mostly disciplinarian. I’m not panicking, it’s one fucking game in a long season
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When they end the season 7 or 8 wins or better, I'm going to expect a lot of ring kissing and a little more respect around here.
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Meh. Your original poast said 9-3. That was straight dooging. I was thinking 7 wins max (negadooging) after the game and now I think 8 could be likely (possible). This team is a collection of parts just thrown together in less than six months. I am starting to believe that this was maybe not a fatal loss but a learning one. One we could not afford within the B1G.
Take Northwestern, Rutgers and Michigan to learn and improve. Then leave it all out there during murderers row.
I still hate the play call but if it was blocked wrong by a youngun (Latu) who is playing in critical situations because of injuries and lack of depth I can understand (not accept) the Fisch tale.
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This is an art, not a science. I'm saying 5 wins is a bit of an overreaction. Of course, anything could happen. But seven wins feels pretty safe to me. Then it's a matter of grabbing your balls and calling an 8th or 9th win. I have grabbed my balls. I'm saying 8 or 9. 7 at worst. If we were playing Buck instead of Michigan I'd adjust by -1. I think we? have a very good shot at Michigan. If Arkansas State can stay within 10, we? can beat them at home. Totally doable. Cook it.
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It's definitely one of those chicken or egg things a bit but Apple Cup loses if you go back and look at the years are predictive of disappointing and underachieving seasons. Going back to the start of the James year 1982 is about the only year where UW wasn't fucking themselves up that season where they lost the Apple Cup. Not a great sign.
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Yeah but this is a different Apple Cup year. My Cuog was particularly greased up and played about as well as we? can play, and, still, your? wide receiver and coaching staff had two relatively easy chances to smack a walk off home run to win it anyway. I wouldn't take too much meaning out of losing to Cuog. We? had this game circled in dark ink and it's all we? really have going for us in life. Washington was the better team; even @GrandpaSankey could see as much. Trust me.
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how come Washington was the only one that benefited from the Covid year?
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The whole "greased up Coug" thing really serves to let Fisch off the hook. I don't care how greased up they were. UW should never have lost that game, period. I know you are not intending to provide cover for Fisch and his horrible game planning, but that's effectively what that kind of excuse serves to do. Dick Fain was saying this same line last Friday before the game - UW was better on paper, blah blah, "but Coug are emotionally desperate to win this one." I think that's weak and let's UW off easy for blowing it.
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I was in the 8-5 camp. That factored wins over cuog, Rutgers and Indiana. I was too doogish I’m afraid. UW will not only need to find a way to beat those two, but also pick up a win against the likes of Michigan, Iowa, USC, Penn State or Oregon, which I counted as losses.
Gonna be dicey. 6-6 seems to be the ceiling based on what I’ve seen after three games.
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